a little something for gay pride week

I once had this boyfriend who was a little naive or maybe he was just stupid. Naive, stupid ... whatever you want to call it, I had hoped he was just naive at the time, but well you can only get away with naive for so long before it's just plain stupidity. Sometimes he said or asked the stupidest things. For example: One day he and I are driving through town and we are behind some gay guys car. At least I strongly suspected he was gay because he had a rainbow sticker on the back of his car. Not a really huge "look at me I am gay and proud" flag just one of those long thin ones, under the window of his hatchback. Now stupid ex boyfriend ... sorry I mean naive ex boyfriend says to me "I like that sticker" and I say "yeah it's cool". Of course I am being equally stupid at this point because I assume he knows what it is and I made the other rash assumption that he thought it was cool that people are proudly displaying their gayness without fear. (That sounded terribly bigoted of me didn't it ... gayness? Well you know what I am saying.) So then he says "I wonder where I can get one for my truck"

I almost died laughing.

You gotta understand, stupid ex boyfriend was a man's man and not in the rainbow flag kind of way. Although I knew what a big fat cry baby he was in private, in public he wanted to be seen as all tough and manly (even though he liked rainbows? I know he was an enigma in that way, I cannot explain, he also thinks getting the guys to get him hot chocolate with extra whipped cream in the mornings instead of coffee is manly, but I digress). So wiping the tears away from my eyes I asked him "Don't you know what that is?" Well then he got embarrassed and said "What? It's just a rainbow sticker, I like rainbows I think it's different." I laughed some more before I told him it was a gay pride sticker. He got all angry at me for laughing at him, which yes perhaps was cruel but come on ... where the hell have you been living, under a rock. It's not like he grew up in the middle of some small town where homosexuality is still an unmentioned secret. He grew up in a big suburb outside a big city.

My only regret is that I didn't keep a straight face and go buy him one and give it to him as a present.

Epilogue
He asked everyone he knew if they knew what it was and the only one who didn't was his mom.